April 17, 2025 - Federal Reserve Board Governor Michael S. Barr gave a speech entitled, “Deepfakes and the AI Arms Race in Bank Cybersecurity.” April 17, 2025- The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published an article...more
April 11, 2025- The Credit Access and Inclusion Act was introduced to expand credit access for millions of Americans with limited or non-existent credit histories. April 14, 2025- Federal Reserve Board Governor...more
April 9, 2025- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs passed a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule on overdraft fees based upon the...more
April 8, 2025 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Acting Chair Travis Hill gave a speech entitled “View from the FDIC: Update on Key Policy Issues” at the American Bankers Association Washington Summit....more
March 27, 2025- The U.S. Senate passed a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule imposing price controls on overdraft services offered by banks and credit...more
March 21, 2025 - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule striking the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN under...more
February 26, 2025- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “The Future of American Capital: Strengthening Public and Private Markets by Increasing Investor...more
February 21, 2025 - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, released a statement on the FDIC inspector general’s response to her questions...more
February 5, 2025 - The Federal Reserve Board released the hypothetical scenarios for its annual stress test, which helps ensure that large banks can lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession....more
January 9, 2025- House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill (AR-02) announced the House Financial Services Committee’s Vice Chairman, Subcommittees Chairs, Vice Chair for Communications and Committee Whip for...more
December 20, 2024- The Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator have a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which sets out the high-level...more
December 18, 2024- The Federal Open Markets Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...more
December 12, 2024- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule addressing overdrafts, applicable to banks and credit unions with more than $10 billion in assets. The rule was promptly challenged by...more
December 10, 2024 - The United States Department of the Treasury is announcing the disbursement of $20 billion for the benefit of Ukraine, as part of the $50 billion G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loans...more
November 22, 2024- The Federal Reserve announced additional information about the periodic review of its monetary policy strategy, tools, and communications—the framework it uses to pursue its congressionally-assigned...more
November 7, 2024 - The Federal Open Markets Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/2 to 4-3/4 percent. November 7, 2024- Securities and Exchange...more
September 19, 2024- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Open Market Trading Desk issued a statement announcing it intends to conduct a small value term repo operation with Primary Dealers....more
August 9, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading...more
August 2, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board requested comment on a proposed rule that would establish data standards for certain information collections submitted to financial regulatory agencies....more
June 6, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a request for information on the Uses, Opportunities, and Risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Financial Services Sector....more
May 23, 2024- The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5403, the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, prohibiting the issuance of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency. May 23, 2024- U.S. House Financial Services...more
May 21, 2024- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen hosted a roundtable with German financial executives to discuss global macroeconomic trends, and financial sector risks, including illicit finance and Russia...more
May 16, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the 2024 National Strategy for Combatting Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing (2024 Strategy), which provides a blueprint of the U.S. government’s goals,...more
May 15, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators.” The Committee heard testimony from: the Honorable Michael Barr, Vice Chairman for Supervision,...more
April 11, 2024- U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) introduced the bipartisan Ransomware and Financial Stability Act....more